RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.